“It was such an amazing piece of journalism,” said Dan Kennedy, a professor at Northeastern University. “One can only imagine the world of hurt we’d all be in journalism if the Post had been taken in” by the ruse, he said.

“What we need to see is the rest of Greater Boston catching up with the city, learning from the city, and finding out how to permit more quickly and to produce the housing we’re going to need throughout the region,” said Boston Foundation senior fellow and Northeastern University public policy professor Barry Bluestone, who put […]

The United States is awash with guns. Currently, there are about 270 million firearms in civilian hands, but half of those weapons are owned by just 3 percent of the population, according to a national survey conducted last year by Northeastern University researcher Matthew Miller, a professor of health sciences and epidemiology.

In a paper published in the journal Business Horizons, Melissa S. Baucus, formerly of the University of Otago in New Zealand, and Cheryl R. Mitteness of Northeastern University say it’s easy for swindlers to circumvent safeguards in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, the 2012 federal law allowing startups to raise up to $1 million […]

“The purpose of terrorism is to intentionally sow fear in the public and thereby change the status quo,” said Max Abrahms, a political science professor at Northeastern University who researches terrorism. “In that sense, terrorism is very effective. It does what it sets out to do — it creates terror.”

Dan Schawbel spoke to Joseph E. Aoun, author of Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, about how artificial intelligence (AI) will impact higher education, the future role of students and teachers, how AI will impact entry-level jobs, the role of human connection in a world driven by technology, the relevant of liberal […]

The study’s researchers, who hail from Columbia Business School, New York University and Northeastern University, say one of the responses to these kinds of privacy issues could be a “cloaking device” that would protect users from having advertisers make assumptions based on their likes.

According to Andrea Matwyshyn, professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, if companies help cyber criminals make money off hacks, they will only continue.

David Choffnes is an assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University. He joins The Takeaway to discuss how the FCC’s proposed deregulation would affect individual consumers and small businesses.

Market forces are, in part, responsible for the rise in generic drug prices, said Todd Brown, pharmacy instructor at Northeastern University. “Some of the price increases are due to generic companies that have decided not to make a product,” Brown said. “So all of the sudden when there’s a shortage… you know the price will […]

“While some online users may benefit from being targeted based on inferences of their personal characteristics, others may find such inferences unsettling,” the study’s authors, who hail from Columbia Business School, New York University and Northeastern University, wrote.

WGBH Legal Analyst and Northeastern Law Professor Daniel Medwed tells Morning Edition that the bill aims to address a real problem but falls short of reaching a solution.